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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 9385519" data-attributes="member: 58416">Thought:Why must ability scores be only from species or only from background?Perhaps each Species could grant one fixed +1 and one semi-floating* +1. On top of that, each background could grant a +1 that may be placed into one of three attributes.*by semi-floating, I mean that each species could have two attributes that they typically (but not always) excel at. For example, dwarves are renowned for their Constitution, so the fixed +1 could go there. As well, dwarves are known for wisdom that comes from long lives and for an uncanny battle strength that defies their otherwise squat stature, so their semi-floating +1 could go to either Strength or Wisdom.Dwarf: +1 Con; +1 to either Str or WISThen perhaps the town guard background might assume some minimum level of physical fitness (Str); experience in observing people and places (Wis); and <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> (I'm making this up as I'm typing it) let's say some reasoning for (Con).With that in mind, character creation might look like this:Dwarf +1 Con; +1 to either Str or Wis Guard Background: +1 one of to Str, Con, or WisIf you wanted to keep the idea of human versatility, humans could be the only species to have two freely floating +1s.Half-Elves could be +1 Cha; +1 to anyHalf-Orcs could be +1 Str; +1 to any</blockquote>

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